How far is our furthest satellite or probe? And how do they get it past the asteroid belt?

Once you give the distance, Please relate that distance to something in space.


what information has it given to us yet? What is it's primary mission?


What is the furthest satellite or probe that we are sending and why are we sending it?|||Voyager 1 launched in September 1977 is the furthest man made object. It visited Saturn in November 1980 and has carried on going still sending signals back. It is expected to continue communicating until 2020, although it has still not reached beyond the influence of our sun, so it has still not technically reached the edge of the solar system.





In August 2006 it reached 100 astronomical units from the Sun (that is 100 times further than the Earth is from the Sun) a distance of 9.3 billion miles. It is travelling at around 3.6 AU per year, so will now be around 103 AUs away.





The asteroid belt exists in a certain plane (very much like the rings of Saturn) so it is easy to miss this by sending the probe "over" or "under" the belt.





The primary mission of Voyager 1 was to visit Jupiter and Saturn.|||http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/index.html Last news Voyager Squashes View of Solar System 07.02.08

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|||Yeah, the Pioneer and Voyager probes are beyond Pluto. I believe we lost contact with them, they are just drifting now. We sent them out there to explore, I guess, I don't know if they found anything significant.|||Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, and Voyagers 1 %26amp; 2 are all beyond Pluto by now.





And the asteroid belt does not have that many asteroids, so the space probes simply fly between them.





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As of August 12, 2006, Voyager 1 is over 14.96 terameters (14.96脳1012 meters, or 14.96脳109 km, 100 AU, or 9.3 billion miles) from the Sun. At this distance, signals from Voyager 1 take more than thirteen hours to reach its control center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Voyager 1 has achieved solar escape velocity, meaning that its trajectory will not return it to the solar system.





Along with Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, and its sister ship Voyager 2, Voyager 1 is an interstellar probe.|||The Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977. It uses three radioisotope thermoelectric generators to power itself, fueled by plutonium. As of Aug. 12, 2006, the probe was over 14.96 terameters (that's 14.96脳10^12 meters) away from the sun. Signals take more than 13 hours to reach Earth from that distance. To put that into perspective, the distance from the Earth to the sun is roughly 150,000,000,000 kilometers. The Voyager spacecraft is over 100 times that distance. Or, if you prefer, 420,168,067 times the distance from Earth to the moon.





As for the asteroid belt, at this point, no one really cares if it gets hit, although it is just a field of debris, not anything like an actual wall.|||Yeah, the first guy pretty much summed things up; the second guy, I guess, forgot the fact that the Pioneers were first to fly past Jupiter %26amp; Saturn, revolutionizing our ideas on both planets, and that Voyagers 1 %26amp; 2 confirmed our views of Jupiter %26amp; Saturn, then went on to fly past Uranus %26amp; Neptune, again increasing our knowledge %26amp; views of those two planets.|||The Voyager 1 is the furthest man-made object from Earth, and it's still transmitting data back. It's 9.5 billion miles away, about 3 times the distance between the Sun and Pluto. I believe its primary mission was to photograph Jupiter and Saturn.





Contrary to what many think, the Asteroid belt is mostly empty. On average the asteroids are miles apart, and you would have to aim carefully to hit one.|||the Hubble telescope is our farthest probe; it's ascending Planet Jupiter right now.